Objectives A systematic review and meta-analysis were conducted to quantify the degree to
which subjective age is associated with cognition, subjective well-being, and depression …

Age as an individual characteristic is ubiquitous in social science research because it has
important associations with numerous outcomes of interest. Yet age is rarely treated as a …

This article updates and extends an earlier meta-analysis (Westerhof et al., 2014) on the
longitudinal effects of subjective aging (SA) on health outcomes. A systematic search in …

Personal views on aging, such as age stereotypes and subjective aging, can affect various
health outcomes in later life. For the past 20 years or so, a large body of experimental and …

Ageism is defined as stereotypes, prejudice, or discrimination against (but also in favour of)
people because of their chronological age. Although the practice of ageism and ageist …

Despite the increasing market size and consumption power of older consumers, older
people seldom appear in advertising, and research activity in this area suggests that …

The present meta-analysis analyzed how the gap between subjective age and chronological
age changes across the life-span and whether the size of this gap varies across regions of …

In the Covid-19 pandemic, being older means being in a special focus: Probabilities for
severe infections and mortality rise with increasing age and protective measures for this …

Some 2 decades have passed since Levy et al.(2002) published their seminal study on the
impact of self-perceptions of aging (SPA) on mortality over a period of 23 years in this …

The tremendous heterogeneity in functional and demographic characteristics of the over-65
age group presents challenges to effective marketing and public-health communications …